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Just 1.6 GW for 11 billion euros and a 14 years delay... Meanwhile Germany has added 2.65 GW of solar power in Q1/2023 alone: https://www.pv-magazine.de/2023/0

• MagnumOpus 3y ago
  2.65GWpeak... all of which runs at a capacity factor of about 11% on average, and delivers energy at inconsistent inconvenient times. Won't run your heat pump in a December night for sure. So the solar energy gets supplemented with bulldozing villages every year to mine lignite in Garzweiler instead. Yay?
  • bayesian_horse 3y ago
    Bullshit. Germany is still a decade or two away from needing energy storage to even out renewable power peaks. Until then, all the capacity provided by renewable sources reduces the overall emissions, which is the reason we are doing this at all. The purpose of building up renewable energy sources right now is NOT to sustain peak loads entirely from renewables. But such simplifications are convenient, right?
• weberer 3y ago
  That's great that Germany has that option. Finland is quite a bit further north, and doesn't get much solar during the winter months when it needs it the most. There's a lack of mountains an fjords as well, so hydro is also hard to come by.